Family in Beantown

If you don't know all that your city has to offer and would like a reason to get to know it a bit better, I have an idea - invite your family to stay with you for a week!  You will suddenly be looking on Ticketmaster.com, stubhub.com, and googling "what to do in [enter your city here]."  Luckily, I moved to Boston so I have had plenty of options. Now if you had been lucky enough to visit me in my hometown of Dawsonville (Georgia), I would have taken you fourwheelin', skeetshootin', river floatin', wakeboardin', campmeetin' and maybe we would have even done some noodlin’.  But now that I live in the great city of Boston, I get to choose from events at the Theatah (theater), the Pahk (park), the Gahhden (Garden), and any place the T will take you (which is actually quite a lot of options). 
As I mentioned in my last post, my family visited for Thanksgiving - and it can be difficult to find activities that all can enjoy.  However, as usual the Weatherford clan was pretty laid back - I was probably the most high strung out of anyone (surprise surprise). But anyways...as I was saying, if you invite family from out-of-town to your city - you are sure to see more than you even knew existed. 
Now – on to some our touristy activities.  On Tuesday we went ice-skating on Frog Pond in the Boston Common (It should be noted that I’m letting Carson off the hook by NOT posting the video of him holding on to the wall the entire way around the rink... but he should always remember that I have it on video....muahaha).  As we ice skated/crawled around the ice (Carson), Mammie and Poo (my grandparents) toured the State House.  We then toured a couple of the historical sights along Boston’s Freedom Trail, including one of the oldest cemetery's in the city where Paul Revere and John Hancock were laid to rest.
We also did what every tourist does in Boston - we walked around Quincy Market.  This is one of my favorite spots at night - especially this time of the year with all of the Christmas lights and festive decorations (very romantic...well maybe not so much with the fam). 
On Tuesday we spent the entire day in the city....everyone was a trooper for sure.  Tuesday night we went to see the Blue Man Group - everyone loved it! It was surprisingly really funny - I would definitely recommend seeing it. 
On Wednesday night Anna and Trey arrived and after picking them up from the airport we drove straight to the Garden to attend our very first Celtic's game.  The Celtics game was very exciting - the Garden is one of my favorite sports arena's - I would go to a Bruins/Celtics game any day of the week!  Shaq “dominated” (quoting Paul) and the Celts came back in the 4th quarter to beat the NJ Nets.  At one point in the game, Carson looked over at Paul and said, "man, you Northerners get just as excited about pro-basketball as we do about SEC Football."

 I think Paul was excited to show my brothers that people do actually get excited about pro sports....and its not just all about college football like it is in Georgia.
On Black Friday we watched Auburn beat Alabama (WDE) at Paul's parents' house (yes, I actually brought my crew back to their house the day after Thanksgiving...and of course the food spread was out of control!).  After Auburn’s unbelievable comeback, the "32 and under" crowd went back to the city to show Trey and Anna a little bit more of the city.  We took them back to Frog Pond to go ice-skating, walked around Quincy Market, and went to Pizzeria Regina in the North End (post will follow on just that!).